Editing Rockland, Maine (section)

== Notable people ==
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* [[Adelbert Ames]], Civil War general, senator and the 27th [[List of Governors of Mississippi|governor of Mississippi]]
* [[Hiram George Berry]], Civil War general and first commander of [[4th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment]]
* [[Alton H. Blackington]], feature journalist, photojournalist and chronicler of New England; born in Rockland
* [[William T. Cobb]], 46th [[List of Governors of Maine|governor of Maine]]
* [[Samuel Collins (politician)|Samuel Collins, Jr.]], state senator and Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
* [[Leo Connellan]], poet
* [[Gertrude Elliott]], actress
* [[Maxine Elliott]], actress
* [[David F. Emery]], US congressman
* [[Henry Faller]], founder of ''[[Uncle Henry's]]''
* [[Nathan A. Farwell]], US senator
* [[Samuel C. Fessenden]], served in the 37th U. S. Congress, lived and served as a judge in Rockland<ref>Treese, Joel D.. ''Biographical directory of the American Congress, 1774-1996: the Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First through the 104th Congress, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 1997''. Alexandria, Va.: CQ Staff Directories, Inc., 1997. Print.</ref>
* [[Todd Field]], Academy Award-nominated filmmaker<ref name="Biography - Field, Todd (1964-): An article from: Contemporary Authors ">{{cite news|author= Gale, Thomas|title= Todd Field Biography|work= [[Contemporary Authors]]|date= December 16, 2007}}</ref>
* [[Obadiah Gardner]], US senator
* [[Bo Goldman]], Broadway playwright & Oscar-winning screenwriter<ref>{{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2023-07-26 |title=Bo Goldman, Oscar-Winning Screenwriter, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/movies/bo-goldman-dead.html |access-date=2024-07-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
* [[Edward Sturgis Ingraham]], educator, publisher, mountaineer, learned printing trade in Rockland
* [[Isaac Smith Kalloch]], mayor of [[San Francisco]]
* [[Charles E. Littlefield]], US congressman
* [[Theodore E. Long]], former president of [[Elizabethtown College]]
* [[Herbert Lord]], director of the United States Bureau of the Budget and awarded the Distinguished Service Medal; born in Rockland
* [[Samizu Matsuki]], artist and educator
* [[Edward Mazurek]], state senator
* [[Edna St. Vincent Millay]], Pulitzer Prize–winning poet
* [[Edward C. Moran Jr.]], US Representative
* [[Louise Nevelson]], artist, emigrated from Russia to Rockland as a child
* [[Edward Lawry Norton]], electrical engineer who developed the [[Norton equivalent circuit]], born in Rockland
* [[Walter Piston]], Pulitzer Prize–winning composer
* [[Robert B. Rheault]], former commander of all Special Forces in Vietnam
* [[Malcolm Robbins]], Serial killer born in Rockland
* [[Alice Marion Shaw]], composer and pianist born in Rockland
* [[Carrie Burpee Shaw]], composer and educator born in Rockland
* [[Katrina Smith]], state legislator
* [[Charles Wilbert Snow]], educator, poet, college professor, Governor of Connecticut, author of Codline's Child, born and summered in the Rockland area
* [[James Breckenridge Speed]], businessman and philanthropist, summered and died in Rockland
* [[Davis Tillson]], Civil War general, state legislator and businessman